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A prolonged and massive increase in aggregate wealth per capita has taken place over several centuries.

The historical record suggests that the transition to to a new hegemon has always been attended by what I have elsewhere called hegemonic war.

The competitive nation-state system, with all its capacity for good and evil, is spreading in the Third World and is transforming that world.

The world economy diffuses rather than concentrates wealth.

The opposing tendencies of concentration and spread are of little consequence in the liberal model of political economy.

Specialization makes the welfare of the society vulnerable to the market and to political forces beyond national control.

Many critics see international trade as a form of cultural imperialism that must be strictly controlled.

In short, the elimination of the financial legacy of Reaganomics could force the United States to make some exceptionally difficult choices indeed.

I was certain that I was not a Marxist, but I did believe firmly that a connection between economics and politics existed.

A market is not politically neutral; its existence creates economic power which one actor can use against another.